Huguenot

Hu·gue·not

any French Protestant of the 16th or 17th cent.

Origin of Huguenot

MFr, origin, originally , supporter of group in Geneva opposing annexation to Savoy: altered (after Hugues Besançon, leader of the group) from earlier eidgnot from German eidgenosse, a confederate, ally: name later applied to Protestants in reference to the Calvinist Reformation in Geneva

Huguenot

noun

A French Protestant of the 16th to 18th centuries.

Origin of Huguenot

French from Old French huguenotmember of a Swiss political movementalteration ( influenced by BezansonHugues (c. 1491-1532?), Swiss political leader ) of dialectal eyguenotfrom German dialectal Eidgenosseconfederatefrom Middle High German eitgenōzeitoath ( from Old High German eid ) genōzcompanion ( from Old High German ginōz )

From Frenchhuguenot (“Huguenot; also, a personal name and surname”), diminutive of Hugo, Hugon, Hugues, from Middle High German Hūg, Hūc (“Hugh, a man's name”), from Middle High German huge (“mind”), from Old High German hugu (“mind, thought”), from Proto-Germanic*huguz, *hugiz (“mind”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Old English hyge (“thought, mind, heart, disposition, intention, courage, pride”).

Sentence Examples

HUGH SWINTON LEGARE (1797-1843), American lawyer and statesman, was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on the 2nd of January 1797, of Huguenot and Scotch stock.

Then Louis, in company with his brothers William and Henry, made his way across the French frontier to the camp of the Huguenot leader, Admiral Coligny.

The individuals among the American Quakers who laboured most earnestly and indefatigably on behalf of the Africans were John Woolman (1720-1773) and Anthony Benezet (1713-1784), the latter a son of a French Huguenot driven from France by the revocation of the edict of Nantes.